Psychoanalysis

Disciplines > Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis started with Sigmund Freud's remarkable insight into the unconscious and his desire to help his patients with mental issues. Since then it has developed and changed and there are many schools of thought around it, though all link back to Freud in some shape or form.

• Concepts: Key ideas, explanations and understanding.

  • Abjection, The Chora, Counter-transference, The Depressive Position, Desire, more...

• Theorists: Key contributors to the field.

  • Wilfred Bion, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Julia Kristeva, more...

• Articles: Additional points of interest.

  • Early and Late Freud, Freud and sex, Group behavior and psychoanalysis, Infant sexuality, more...

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See also

Critical theory, Coping Mechanisms, Identity